When Remediation is a Financial Treat
Practical Risk Management Measures
Celebrating 20 Years in Business. An origin story.
By Bruce Tunnicliffe It was Friday July 11, 2003, my last day at the consulting firm where I started my environmental career. Over lunch, I remember walking to a government office in downtown Kitchener, Ontario, nervously lining up, and handing
Case Study: When In-Situ Techniques Fail
A recent trend we’ve seen in the environmental remediation sector relates to a significant uptick in popularity of using Permeable Reactive Barriers (PRBs) as a Risk Management Measure (RMM) at impacted sites in Canada. But what happens when PRBs start
Preferred Installer Arrangement for Fluoro-Sorb® Absorbent
Vertex Environmental Inc. is thrilled to announce that we have entered into an exclusive agreement, through our US partners AST Environmental, Inc. (AST), with CETCO®, a subsidiary of Minerals Technologies Inc., to provide the proprietary FLUORO-SORB® Absorbent technology for in
Record-Setting SMART Remediation 2023 Recap!
This year, SMART Remediation hosted its 39th and 40th events in Canada and was very happy to be back fully in-person after a couple of long, challenging years and it surely seemed that the attendees were looking forward to being
Sewer Discharge Agreements: Choppy Waters or Smooth Sailing?
The municipal permitting process for Sewer Discharge Agreements (SDAs) can be complex and frustrating at times. Ontario operates under a patchwork of different regulations where every municipality has its own unique permitting process. Some two-tier municipalities have separate application processes
Residential Condominium SDA Case Study
Background: A new residential condominium development in Toronto with three levels of underground parking levels. The developer retained Vertex to prepare dewatering and groundwater treatment plans, and to process two sewer discharge agreement (SDA) permits to cover both the short-term
Permeable Reactive Barriers: Quality Data Gathering creates Robust Designs
In the environmental industry the Permeable Reactive Barrier, or PRB, is a well known technology/strategy when dealing property boundary management and off-Site liability risk for mobile groundwater impacts. In fact, Vertex has already written about these technologies a few times